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ReviewCancers2024

The Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Biomarker in Cutaneous Oncology: A Systematic Review of Evidence beyond Malignant Melanoma.

Konstantinos Seretis, Konstantinos Sfaelos, Elena Boptsi, Georgios Gaitanis, Ioannis D Bassukas

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Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Konstantinos SeretisDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1844-1264
Konstantinos SfaelosDepartment of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7645-7187
Elena BoptsiDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.
Georgios GaitanisDepartment of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5482-1304
Ioannis D BassukasDepartment of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0252-8314

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the ongoing progress of basic research along with the introduction of new pharmaceutical options spanning almost all therapeutic areas, the need for biomarkers that will be implemented into the personalized medical approach is higher than ever. Their use can be incorporated into clinical practice and can be applied to the classification of disorders and the evaluation of disease severity but also to the monitoring of the progress of therapeutic/pharmaceutical interventions. This systematic review collects the findings of hematologic biomarkers in various cutaneous malignancies, excluding malignant melanoma, to support their potential use in the prognosis but also in the assessment of therapeutic strategies for the specific category of skin disorders.

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cutaneous lymphomacutaneous sarcomahematological biomarkerskeratinocyte skin cancerneutrophil-to-lymphocyte rationon-melanoma skin cancerskin cancer

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PMID38473401
PMCPMC10931327

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